1986-01 January IBEW Journal.pdf - International Brotherhood Of ...

New Journeymen
Enjoying Life
Graduates
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PhOl n.gnpht'd durin, Ihe Loul 666, Richmond.
V~,AJlnulil l Awuds B :lnquf l an , left 10 righi, new
;oumtymtn "cnneth Condrey, l ~ n lt' M illn, Beverly
T."lo., J(r:nne lb ,oncs, Ph il ip Crc"-n, HlIttvt f
umb, FUO Q ouuney, and Edwud GrC'lory. Not
s hown: Thomu Lef', Kri.s Mitchdl, Joh n P3)'nl!',
Randall Stewart, and £rnU I Thomas.
Sllo" 'n here iii BIO lher £d
HazlnoD. Pa,. who received
l ft l'r h i§: heiltl lunrpbn(,
hult z, Local 686,
I n fW luse on lift
Pictured hul!' is the proud 19'85 apprentice graduill1i
ng class 01 tocal 697, l.eh to right aJ~ Nile
Howe, R;a ndy U oyl~, Tom hr@lo, Bill 'Fd cr, Paul
Anduson, R. Cory Aquino, Lrn )amrok, Tom Fl1Ime.
Gary Boyu, DouK Siuman. Krn I-I ydt:. Bob Zarik,
Sean HIW, Ra y KUOlark. lind Mike KnOll. Not
picture.d art Ste\'cn Ch is m, Ba rr)' H:amlin, Mikt
I.,l'srak, Pallt Prondrift'llid . ~ irc hcll Slrih, and DlIn
iryk .. n.
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Al!oo pha tographed .l l lhe Awards B;llJquet .ut , lch
to righi, Donald SHI. Mark Tood, JeHrey Willis,
Richa rd Dudding.. Coll i .Iau is, Slephen Ingo, Frank
Myers, Rod nry Gi nn, [ ul tDe De cke r, Cris pin Fredrichon.
and Pllrick Thompson. 0 1 , bowo ~ M:uk
8arh:l m, ~on :l rd Bro wn, lAd Christopher Hon on.
The Annual Pknle held In latC August was Ihe:
usual $UC«$5 Brother 'ErnIe Hogan'screw prepared
bruk(nl for the worKers Ceorge Appkgau: came
OUt of rc:luemC'fil 10 make IhC' Brun!owlck SIC'W
" lUSt one more time" We noticed Brother 'Immy
EJw:uJ:. $C'caued ~I,) \.oc illo.-:r WIU.! W the u~lilliuu _
Wr'U be lalklng with you next year, Jim! Brolher
Don.ald Llpc I, M:comlng ;a mastc= r barbequc= chef
.... Ilh hiS own scerci sauce. It must have been good)
IU"l.llbol"ll IIlIlh~ 650 picnickers ate It, and nobody
~Ol !ioIck t Theil: was plenlY of food, fun, and fellow­
ShiP,
TrainIng Director lim BoHomon says th,:1.t vuy
few have Signed up far journeyman training. cla~se i'l .
" Maybe Ihe)' don't know what IS bc.mg offered,"
he 53ld Look at whu's available: c;able splicing..
N .£. Code lcomplele review I. N. I:. . Code !changcsl.
mOIOI con u oh, firr Blann" knot tyioKlriAAinw
ttlcks 01 the trade, lnstrunu.:ntauon/process cootrol
fundlLrnentals, semiconductor deVIces, pro·
grammable controllers, ttlephone Interconnect. fi·
bel optics, lind wddlog, eiliu enrollment is a
minimum of J2 student!, Stop by tbe IATC office
orcaI1353·'2.6551t1f partlculars. M ak~ your chOices;
put your name on the liSt. Cel yOur coworkers to
sign up. Remember, Ihe m.aglc number 1$ 11, Or
more
From all of tiS to all 01 you, Happy New Yea r.
Brother Ed Shultz
Receives New Heart
R.A'I''''OI't M . RO BERTS, P .S.
LU. 686 ti &.em l. HAZLETON. PA.- In lanuary,
1985, wrole on IU$ 'Way to work, Brother Ed ward
Shultz suffcred a hurt IItt..ae k. HI!, son Tom was
dnvmg the car ;and Immediately (ook him to the
bosPJtal where II was RIp and LUck for a while J
but
they saved BrOlher Ed . He was hospltallz.ed for
quite II while It then wu deu:rmined that hIS
heart was 90 percent dam.ged. HI$ only chance
fo r SUrvlvll1 would be: 10 havc a hcart Iransplanl.
On S,cp tember 16, lygS. H,other t.d rcc-:m::d a
new heal! I I the Hershey Medlclil Center. T he
operation was II complete success/ and on October
9 Ed returned to hi' home wtth a gift of Hfe, "a
new hUrl .'1 II I! new heol rl h.u rec.h;U'sed his body
and gi ven back. the quall lY of life that hiS old hean
slowly sapped away "There arc: no wo rds for how
[ lee! now and how [ felt befote," .Brothcr Ed saId.
" Now l (;i1n walk aruuml . like before [ bad my
hean attack. I'm a dlfferenl mAn. t'nl luSt as I used
to be." Ed hIlS a whole new outlook on life. Bdore
IW:I transplant, he couldn', even tum fr om SIde: to
BIde III bed without couglung lind bccOlm n ~ COrlgcsl
c:d. Now he t..an cat well Rnd sleep well.
Ed returns to thc Hctsh 'y MedlcaJ Center evert
Tuesday to he monitored for poSSIble tCllt:etlon. II
there IS Jny ign 01 rejection, he will be: reqULrcd
to n:mam then' for three day, WillIe he I' admln'
Istered drugs to ward oflthe rCOjeclion
Brother Ed, our pril)'NS were with }' OU In your
urn,. nf n,.,.1'1 And thf'Y Will rOntmll .. to fw. Wr
WIsh you continued good beAhh, .and God be with
YQU from 1111 your lSEW Blolhen from Local 686.
If you would like to scnd Br othel' Edward Shultz a
clud, hl$;lIddre~:t IJ. EdwardShuln, R D 3, Drums,
PennsylvanIa 18222
CWItCE K R~INCLR. P S
Outgoing Director
LocaI 6?7, Gu ')' and Hammond, Ind ., wislles a long
and prosperoU$ retir~mtD I 10 Don :lnd Mary Bi llnct,
shown ht re.
Apprentices Honored
At Completion Banquet
L.U, 697 lil. G ARY AND HAltt.M OND. I N D.­
Loe .. 1 697'. 36th EJe ctnc.1I1 Appt~IUlee$hlp Complelion
Bllnquet ""'.., held Septembel 20. 1985, at
Schcrwood South, Sdu:rttville, Indilina. After ~
very enloyable $Ocill boul and dinner, Business
Man~ge l and Ma.u~r of Certmomu Bob Lauer
made commems to the graduates .. bout t.he D~d
for ongomg HalOing in ordc, 10 adapt to changes
In the mdustry and thl:' needs of Ihl:' CU-5 lomers.
He ended hiS lemarks with thiS thought· .. 'ThIS
is a Story lIbout fOUl people named EvC'rybody,
Somebody, Anylxxiy. and Nobody I here was an
Im portant lob to be done. and ht:.rybody was asked
lO do It. Evuybody was lurc Somebody would do
It. Anybody could have done It, bu t . obody di d
If. Somebody got ;angry about that because it W.15
hc.rybody's job. Evc:rybody Ibouglll Anybody could
do ii, bU I Nobody realized tha i Everybody wouldn 't
do It. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somt::body
when Nobody did ..... hat Anybody o.uulJ II:.Ivt: JUut:.·
Gentlemen, piu,c do nOI loin t il ls group. Loc;l1
69715 a proud IHgalllz,:mon, :Ull! J am proud [0 be
s.u.:h ;l 6lU.lll pillt 01 ii , J l h~ 1 GCrt310ly hope thal
Local 697 \\IllI be as proud of you when you retire
as they jl re (h ts ev(mng,"
)01nl Apprcll llcc jlnd TUlrung Comlllittee Chai r·
man lames OeSlllrie oi!l;o llddressed the grauu:l1es
on the tOpiC of ke.eplng abre.llSt of changes in the
induslry and learning new skllll. Alter his rcmarks
eQmplclIon CC rt~nclles Ind the Apprentice 01 the
Year AWilnl w", r pr~s~nt(11
Spc,a.:ll recognition WIIS "Iven to Coapprentlccs
of Ine Yea l Paul H Andcr.son and Raymond E.
K.a.sm:uk . CongutullitionJ to ;III the BlOthers of
tbe 1985 apprcDlltc ,raduoil tioll cia",
The spon~rs of thiS very cOloYlible evening were
Local 697 and Ihe Nonhero Indilln; Chapter of the
Nallonai Electrical onUlicton ASSOCiation. Of·
ficers.and members of tht LaktCounty ElectnClans
lomt Apprcnm:cship and Training Committee .arc;
representing manallemem, lames Oesterle, chair·
man; Richard Ander50n ~ Wlllllim Walton; -repre·
senting labo., Timothy Collmg, ~eut"l-arY I DenniS
Akers; and D:1Vtd SodetQulSt. Consultants arc Rob·
Crt L, uuet, bU'llness manlKer, Loc.ai 697, George
LeSnick, duectOi of Arprenuceship TralDmgl and
Philip J lange., chaptc. manager of Northern
Indlanll NECA Also honored thai evening was
Donald Bllcner, who has contnbuted greatly to OU I
appreOIlCC pmgram and to Local 697. Hononng
Don at the pochum WitS Clare Oestcrl e. who com'
m ented on Don', history "... lQcoI l officcr, On the
Apprenuee,hip Committee. and as Apprentice di·
rector Brochc=r BIClIlI::r look lin ellrly t(; tirement
due to his health, Clare Ocsterle concluJcd : "He
h.u dedicated nuny houlIJ of hiS own tmH! with
the only compensa ti on being the personal satis·
b CII 011 of knowing his eflons were fOI t he benefi t
of all He h:a$ served m